* Adjunct lecturer in EU law, HEC Paris, Tax and Law Department. Postdoctoral researcher, Project CNRS (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique/French National Fund of Scientific Research) ‘International Investment Law and Natural Resources’. I wish to thank all organisers and participants of the 13th Jean Monnet Seminar ‘EU Law and Risk Regulation’, 19-25 April 2015, Dubrovnik. Views a...

An extensive literature in economics uses a continuum of random variables to model individual random shocks imposed on a large population. Let H denote the Hilbert space of square-integrable random variables. A key concern is to characterize the family of all H-valued functions that satisfy the law of large numbers when a large sample of agents is drawn at random. We use the iterative extension...

344 1 Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology (ICRI) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) (www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri) and Attorney at Law at the Brussels Bar at the Information Technology Law Department of the law firm Stibbe (www.stibbe.com). Contact address: Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuv...

the causation (tasbib) is a ground of liability in law which leads to compensation of damages in civil law and punishment in criminal law. as causation being discussed in both civil law and criminal law separately, it is generally perceived that the causation in civil law is different from that of criminal law. by reviewing the roots and conditions of causation, it becomes clear that the nature...

there are two historical paradigms in iranian family law: love law and libido law. understanding the two approaches is possible by thinking on the four categories of love: 1. libido: the passion of life and manifestation of sexual drive. 2.eros: the romantic love and the genuine material of poem and literature. 3.philia: the mere love purified from libido. 4. agape: the spiritual love in mystic...

according to common law rules of england, obligation by one party is enforceable when the other has provided a consideration or the contract has been put in a deed. in some common law jurisdictions, such as australia, canada and the united states, another doctrine, named reasonable reliance, has developed, which could act as surrogate for the doctrine of consideration. english courts, however, ...

OBJECTIVE The penalty point system was introduced in Italy in June 2003. The aim of this study was to evaluate the health effects of this legislation in the Lazio region. METHODS Poisson models were used to compare emergency department visits, hospitalizations and death between the pre-law and post-law periods (July 2001-June 2003; July 2003-June 2004). RESULTS The emergency department visi...